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Seyé Municipality, Mexico

Fairytale Graveyard

A field of whimsical floats, where all of your favorite childhood stories have been put out to pasture.
New London, Connecticut

Annual Burning of Benedict Arnold

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.
Mengwi, Indonesia

Ogoh-Ogoh Museum

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.
military history

Find the Goat in This U.S. Military Parade

In 1898, Thomas Edison Inc. filmed 300 Marines, the Marine band, and one ruminant on the march.
Sarah Laskow February 7, 2018
rites and rituals

Once a Forbidden Tradition, Mummering in Newfoundland Is Alive and Well

See the creative costumes that mummers in St. John's wore this year.
Sarah Laskow December 13, 2017
saints

The Festival That Soaks a Spanish Town With Rosemary-Scented Smoke

A yearly procession commemorates a smallpox cure.
Sarah Laskow November 28, 2017
infrastructure

New York Once Threw a Giant Parade to Celebrate a 1,600-Mile Cable

It was the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic.
Sarah Laskow November 22, 2017
hot springs

The Annual Journey of a Giant Miso Soup Bowl

Every September in Yamanaka-Onsen, the owan-mikoshi gets a lift around town.
Hannah Kirshner November 9, 2017
Lazarim, Portugal

Lazarim Carnival Celebrations

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.
Tainan City, Taiwan

Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.
Washington, D.C.

Inaugural Parade Center Line

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.
rites and rituals

How to Blend in at an Alpine Krampus Parade

You'll need a terrifying mask, a lot of fur, a smoke bomb, and a whip.
Sandra Knisely December 13, 2016
film locations

Mexico City’s New Day of the Dead Parade is Based on a James Bond Film

The cultural event first appeared in "Spectre."
Simon Schatzberg November 11, 2016
Quicksburg, Virginia

American Celebration on Parade

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
video

See The Bosch Parade's Bizarre, Buoyant Works of Art

Each year, the Netherlands' festival features outlandish exhibits on floats that actually float.
Urvija Banerji May 23, 2016
Romont, Switzerland

Les Pleureuses

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.
New Orleans, Louisiana

Mardi Gras World

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.